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THE EVEXING NTAR, WASHINGTON, D. Gives .. SATURDAY 'APRIT 20, 1935, Tirade From Seaffold | |J. . TUBERCULOSIS GEN. CHANEY 1S ORDERED HOUSE FIGHT SEEN |[What's What | | ABOR BARGAINING Sehol Chiet || RN |§ FORECAST ON BANKING BILL Federal Reserve Controt Over Open Market Op- erations Opposed. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Absolute control by the Federal Re- serve Board over open market opera- tions in an attempt to unify the Na- tion's banking system, as written into the omnibus banking bill on which the House Banking Committee has been engaged for nine weeks, will be stubbornly fought when the bill comes up in the House. An effort to strike out the whole of Title II, carrying this proposal, will be made by Repre- sentative Hollister of Ohio, ranking Republican member of the committee. Chairman Steagall has permission to file the majority favorable report on this bill up to midnight tonight, and that will be accompanied by a mi- nority report written by Hollister. This is & “must” measure on the ad- ministration’s program, and the House leadership expects to have it up a week from Monday. In the meantime, a special rule will be sought from the Rules Committee providing for at least 20 hours’ debate. Hollister would prefer 30 or 40 hours’ debate, and will argue for an open rule. The Senate Finance Committee has just started hearings on an identical bill. It was drafted by a committee from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve Board with other Treasury officials. Title 1 is for perfecting the ma- chinery of the Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corp. The committee has made few changes and none of material value. The principal change was to increase the assessment from one- twelfth of 1 per cent to one-eighth of 1 per cent and make it applicable on the total deposit instead of on the insured portion, leaving it in the dis- cretion of the board what levy should be made against savings banks. The bill makes the broadest possible pro- vision to allow State banks to become members of the Federal Reserve Sys- tem and thereby enjoy the privileges of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Powers to Board. Title II gives three broad powers to the Federal Reserve Board, and makes it a distinct authority respon- | sible to Congress for the banking | system and policy of the Nation. The three powers are: (1) to initiate, enforce and carry through open ma ket operations, its decisions being mandatory on all the 12 Federal Re- serve banks, which are “bankers’ banks,” and through them on all the member banks; (2) of fixing the dis- count rate, and (3) ordering the Re- serve requirements of member banks. ‘Title ITT carries perfecting amend- ments to various sections of the Fed- eral Reserve act. ‘There is no controversy over Titles I and IIT, and the minority admits they should be passed and are “in excellent shape.” But Title II, they say has no place in this bill and should be considered as an entirely distinct measure, Somewhat the same view was ex- pressed yesterday by Chairman Glass of the Senate Banking Subcommittee, who is also an opponent of the Re- serve Board section. He is seeking action first on the authority for the deposit insurance corporation and the non-controversial national bank law amendments—allowing the highly ocontroversial proposed authority for the Federal Reserve Board to take its chances later—as Hollister will insist. President Roosevelt has indic he desires action on the bill whole and House party leaders say they can get such action. ‘The amendment urged by Repre- sentative Goldsborough of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the House com- mittee, making it mandatory on the Federal Reserve Board to stabilize prices at the 1926 level—has been eliminated. Control to President. “The object to Title II is principally this: (1) It gives any President “po- litical control” of the Federal Reserve System through authority to oust the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; (2) it might permit the whole banking system to be used by the Government to finance -its borrowings. It would give the Federal Reserve Board authority to require all the 12 Federal Reserve banks to buy or sell Government securities and bankers acceptances, where heretofore any one or more of these banks could refuse to co-operate. There was a clash in the committee over this. The majority sentiment is explained by Representative Ford of California that they believed the monetary and credit system of the country should be directly under the control of Congress in order that Congress may exercise broad Consti- tutional mandate to coin money and regulate the value thereof. Hollister emphasizes the opposition to Title II is that “by a series of steps it builds up & closer connection with and control by an administration of credit resources of the Federal Re- serve banks. It makes it possible for the Federal Reserve Board to compel Federal Reserve banks and even against the better judgment of the best bankers, to go ahead and buy ‘Government bonds though the market might be gutted by them. “The Federal Government should be placed in no better position than any other seller of securities with respect to its market. One way in which warning signals arise when the Gov- ernment is continually running a deficit is when it begins to be difficult to float loans. If the Government is in & position where it could make a forced loan, you go by the warning signal before you know it. If loans actually become forced there is no difference in the Government financ- ing in that way and the Government issuing flat money. When we see the Government spending each year sev- eral billions more than it takes in and continuing to pass legislation calling for more expenditures than it can take in for several years, it be- comes all the more less wise to put the temptation before any one to use a power to compel the Federal Reserve Banks to finance the Government's spending against their better judg- ment.” Congress in Brief Today. Senate: 1In recess. Finance Committee studies N. R. A. bill in executive session. House: In recess. Yesterday. Benate: Ratified copyright treaty, subject reconsideration Monday. Debated farm tenant bill. House: Passed soci] -security bill. Banking OCommittee formally ap- proved omnibus bill, Behind News In Capital New Dealers Stir Up Confusion in Fending Off Glass. BY RAUL MALLON. E confusion which the New Dealers have stirred up around the new bank bill is just about as good s handmade dust storm as ever hit this politi- cally dust-ridden Capital. An acknowledged administration spokesman broke into public print anonymously with the announcement last week that the vital section of the administration bill was dead and buried. A few days later Chairman Fletcher of the Senate Banking Com- mittee walked out of President Roose- velt's office and said the vital section was still vital and would be passed. This brought Senator Glass lop- ing in to see Mr. Roosevelt the fol- lowing day. He emerged with an announcement which apparently took both views. At first newsmen thought they heard him say the President favored his idea of de- vitalizing the measure. They sent out stories to that eflect, but later, at the Capitol, Glass moderated his assertion. The stories were switch= ed between newspaper editions. But this moderation was somewhat offset when Glass subsequently in- formed every one he would handle the bill on the assumption that the Presi- dent favored devitalization. ‘While this situation is unprecedent- edly confusing, even for Washington, no one on the inside has any dust in | his mind concerning it. {an extraordinary Senator. He is not terested in patronage. He does not t any of those 4,880,000,000 relief do which now rest in Mr. Roose- velt's pocket. No favor in the power | of the administration could possibly | convince him that he is wrong in try- | ing to bury the vital section 2 of the | bank bill. Hence he has to be handled ’m a different way. If, in confusing Senator Glass, the administration confuses the whole world about the bank bill, that is bad for the world, but only temporarily. The inner wiseacres may be wrong | in these apparently sound deductions, | but they are asking no odds in betting that the vital portions of the adminis- tration bill will emerge from all this synthetic confusion, Senator Glass to the contrary notwithstanding. | Glass on a Merry-go-Round. The confusion of Glassdid not start | recently. Before Mr. Roosevelt went fishing, the 5-foot stick of Vir- ginia dynamite was supposed to have consulted the President about trim- ming the bank bill. If those who were nearby heard aright. Mr. Roosevelt said, in effect: | “O. K., get in touch with Steagall.” | Mr. Steagall is the bank leader in the House, just as Mr. Glass is in the Senate. There are lots of people in the world with whom Glass would rather consult, but necessity required it and he did. The reply he is supposed to have received from Mr. Steagall was that Mr. Steagall would have to get in touch with some “other people.” By this time, Mr. Glass apparently realized he was on & merry-go-round, and he decided to get in touch with himself. Ineidentally, Mr. Steagall has not been in touch with the “other | people” yet. Glass and His List. From these events, you may rightly { deduce that Senator Glass is no | longer regarded by the administration as a thorn in its side, but rather as a pain in the neck. The accepted | techrique in such cases is not to ag- gravate it, but to use the scientific | method of disregarding it. | When last seen, flying more or less | irately through the swinging doors of the Senate chamber, Glass car- ried a long list of the names of wit- nesses he intended to call when his subcommittee starts hearings shortly It would be more than a good guess to say that the list does not con- tain the names of those who might be called champions of the adminis- tration bill. | { However, it is understood Chairman Fletcher of the committee, an ad- ministration man, has worn out three pencils writing an equally long list of proposed witnesses. These, of course, will offset the Glass list. The only thing you may be cer- tain of in this situation is that life will mever be dull at the Capitol as long as Glass and the New Deai- ers are 30 subtly at odds. Bank Bill Issue Is Clear. ‘The bank bill provision at issue is the one creating central credit con- trol in the Federal Reserve System. which there is any dispute, and there is as yet no open dispute about that. All Glass wants to do is to delay action on that section and shove through the other sections of the bill. Of course, all the New Dealers know that if they do not get this section now they will never get it. Therefore, the issue is clear, even though the perticipants are not yet ready to concede it. The F. E. R. A. recently received || s novel request from a Southern factory, which sald: “We are about to have a strike. We request that you suspend relief to those on strike. Then the strike will not last long. This will help your relief situation and we will both benefit.” The answer, diplomatically expressed, was: “No.” ‘There is one provision of the new bank act which bankers would like to have. This is the one extending the time for bankers to pay up on loans from their own banks. Existing law requires them to pay up by this ‘coming June. An observer watched Mr. Roosevell naturedly at' a recent ence, and observed: | As they all see it, Senator Glass is This is the only provision concerning | T, Roosevelt’s best shield.” w‘. 1938 GUARANTEE SSUE Inclusion in N. R. A. Bill or Separate Measure Con- troverted. By the Associated Press. A heated dispute over whether labor's collective ~ bargaining rights should be guaranteed by the new N. R. A. bill or by separate legislation is in the making at the Capitol. “Put 7-A back into the new N. R. A. legisiation and let it go at that,” sald most of industry. ‘The American Federation of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board, on the other hand, pressed for passage of the Wagner labor disputes bill. If that measure were enacted, they said, 7-A would be unnecessary. ‘This was but one of the problems before the Senate Finance Commit- tee as it prepared to start executive consideration of the blll to extend the N. R. A. The committee today was to hear reports from its advisory staff on the voluminous record of testimony at extended hearings and the numer- ous Jetters and documents on N. R. A. it has received by mall. Among these was a still incom- plete report from the Brookings In- stitution, concluding that on the whole “N. R. A. retarded recovery.” The report was made public yesterday by the institution with an announce- ment that this was being done ahead of schedule because- it had been re- leased prematurely by the Senate Finance Committee. Even after the ‘codes had raised wages, this report said, the gains of of the average employe were taken up by the increase in prices. It as- serted also that extension of the N.| R. A. in substantially its present form would result in a “collapse of the code system.” Neither Donald Richberg, chairman of the N. R. A. Board, nor Hugh S. Johnson, former N. R. A. chief, commented on the Brookings findings. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy, prob- ably occasional rain tonight and to- morrow; slightly colder tomorrow, lowest temperature tonight about 4 degrees; moderate northeast winds. Maryland—Cloudy, probably ocea- sional rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder in central portions. Virginia—Occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder in north portion tomorrow. West Virginia—Cloudy, probably oc- | casional rain in south and east por- tions tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 29.86 2087 29.87 Yesterday— 29.88 20.91 20.86 Record for Last 2¢ Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 71, at 4 p.m. yesterday. Lowest, 50, at 5 a.m. totiay. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 86 per cent, at 6 a.m. today. Lowest, 20 per cent, at § p.m. yes- terday. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Tod: Tomorrow. 9:34am. 3:51am. 9:37 p.m. . 4:01 pm. 4:40 pm. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): | Month January . February March . . Average, 3.58 327 375 3.27 3.70 413 471 4.01 3.24 284 Recol 7.09 September . . October . November 237 December 332 Weather in Various Citi;s Tempera- ture. Stations. IRUNH 1sea0] *ec10j0moreg s * Awp12IwIk PRTTRpSe—"— Abllene, Tex. Altany, N, Atlanta, Atlantic Cit: Baltimore, M Birmingham 23883889828 Zoxrxonoame $TEESSEE S F3 1 Cherleston. Ghicaso, 11 ncinnati, Ohl Clev ‘olumb: b &Y H San Antonio. San Diego. Cal. 798 San Francisco. 20.04 8t. Louis, Mo. Beattle, Wi Spokare, am| WASH.. D, C. met death. His sent him to the gallows. Shaking his manacled hands as he stood on the scaffold at Smith- land, Ky., Willlam T. De Boe, jr., delivered a 59-minute tirade before he attack was directed at the woman whose testimony had She was standing somewhere in the crowd of 1,500 people gathered to watch his hanging. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. STAGGERED HOURS DEGLARED HELPFUL New Work System for U. S. Already Aiding, Says Traf- fic Director. The program of “staggered hou employes, started Monday, is serving terially, the Commissioners were in- Van Duzer. He reported that the service of the Capital Transit Co. is 50 per cent better in that lost time during rush- hour periods has been cut in half. “From my personal observation I | find that conditions have materially | improved,” Van Duzer said. “I have also talked with street car inspectors in various parts of the city and with traffic officers and police officials and |they are of the opinion that the “staggering of hours” has improved conditions. “The Capital Transit Co. is mak- |day to adjust its time to the new hours. The operating department re- ports lost time on several lines has been cut in half—that is, if they | formerly ran 12 minutes late, they now are running only six minutes late. The company believes that when final adjustments in the number of street cars are made, conditions will be considerably better. “The bus operators also are ad- justing their schedules as fast as pos- sible to meet the new conditions.” o FAKED PHOTOGRAPH BLACKMAIL CHARGED Three Jailed in New York—One Letter Received by Doris Duke Cromwell. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20.—Three men were locked up early today after de- tectives said two of them had admitted attempts to blackmail prominent women by use of photographs faked to show the intended victims in com- promising positions. The arresting officers said they found in the Hoboken, N. J., residence of one man a typewriter with charac- ters similar to those in leters sent to Mrs. Doris Duke Cromwell, tobacco heiress, and Mrs. George Upham Harris, wife of a Stock Exchange gov- ernor. Members of the gang are also ac- cused of attempting to extort money from “Fay Webb,” the maiden name of Rudy Vallee's estranged wife. Inspector Kiley of Hoboken said Joseph Pilott! admited addressing en- velopes for letters sent to prospective victims and Stephen Darago told of & conference at which’ the blackmail plan got under way. Hans Pfluger, descrived as the leader, denied complicity. Essential to Every High School Student AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TODAY . at_The Evening Star Business Office. or by mail, postpaid . | city... The Euening Htar Offers Its Readers The only complete and authoritative description of the Federal Govern- ment now available. “I think it ought to be used as a text book in the schools and colleges . . .” —M. M. Logan, Senator from Kentucky. pom oo cm e Order Form=—========q NOME coevssesnacesess | Street sosisesivencianee State..... o e e e s e e s e v O of work for some 29,000 Government | to improve traffic conditions very ma- | formed yesterday by TrafMc Director | ing changes in its schedules each | SENATE HEARINGS N BONUS SHoRT 'Finance Committee to Get | Testimony on Monday and Tuesday. By the Associated Press. | While administration leaders re- | ! mained silent and the bonus bloc con- sidered what course of strategy to fol- i low, plans went forward today for hearings on the bonus question Mon- | day and Tuesday. | The hearings, to be held before the | Senate Finance Committee, will be | brief, Chairman Harrison announced. | | Only Government officlals, spokesmen | |for the veterans' organizations And{ | Representative Patman, Democrat, of | | Texas, are to testify. Warn of Bonus Fight. Assailing Harrison's compromise bill as not satisfactory, cash bonus leaders in the Senate have served no- tice they will fight for a more liberal | measure. | | Senator Thomas, Democrat, of | Oklahoma, long an advocate of full | cash payment in new money. charac- | terized the Harrison proposal as * | studied effort to postpbne payment. He announced several amendments | he would offer to improve the bill. | Meanwhile, President Roosevelt said | he had no plans for sending a spe- | berculosis usually affects the glands| Miss Bennett came to New York, | cial message to the Senate on the issue. | of children and that as they grow she said, for “two weeks of fun.” She He declined to comment further. | Mr. Rooseevit went over the bonus | taken, it spreads to the lungs. Dr.|to start work on a picture starring problem yesterday with Senator King | Ruhland said he selected the gradu- | Bing Crosby. | | of Utah, a ranking Democrat on the | ating students as the best beginning = — | because of the possibility of the ad- | | Finance Committee, who has opposed | the bonus legislation in the past. | | Several advocates of cashing the | bonus certificates now said they would | | vote for the Patman bill passed by the | | House rather than the Harrison meas- | land said. X-rays will be taken by |80 cents per capita, whereas this | ure, which was offered in an effort to | the administration. The bonus bloc as a whole, however, | has not determined what strategy it will follow. Some favor pushing the Patman bill as a substitute for the Harrison bill, while others felt it would be easier to use that measure as the basis for liberalizing amendments. Administration leaders privately spread the word that the real friends of the veteran would accept the Har- rison bill or get nothing, because President Roosevelt would veto the Patman measure. Thomas told newspaper men he would offer amendments to provide for payment of the current value of the bonus certificates in new money instead of bonds, as under the Harri- son plan, and to move the maturity date up to 1937. Will Move to Rescind Interest. He said he would also move to re- scind the interest on loans aiready made by the veterans on the certifi- cates. Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, an administration supporter, said he had similar amendments un- der consideration. Connally said he would offer an amendment to cut the interest rate on loans down to 2 per cent, and to pay the current value of the certificates in cash instead of bonds, Thomas said it would not require much change to make the Hariison bill acceptable to him. He said he was willing to agree to the declara- tion of policy against future pensions because it would not bind other Con- gresses. . Tobacco Heiress Will Be 15th Wife Of Former Sailor By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20—William Comerford, former lieutenant com- mander in the Navy, announced last night that he is about to become a husband—for the fifteenth. time. He let it be known that he is be- trothed to Ernestine Smith, 23, who now is in Los Angeles and whose father owns a tobacco plantation in ava. % “I says, ‘Escape me never, Ernes- tine,"” sald the expectant husband, “and pronto laid all the cards on the table without putting & single ace face down. I told her about the 14 women I'd been married to and asked her to be the next. “Bays she, ‘You're & pretty seasoned man; !al take you!’ " DRIVE 1S OPENED Ruhland Seeks to Test All School Children for Symptoms. (Continued From First Page.) the skin test; Dr. Cumming, Dr. A. C. Christie, in charge of the X-ray operations; Dr. Murphy, in charge of school set-ups for the tuberculin tests. Skin Test Included. ‘The examinations will be same as that approved by the National In- stitute of Health and consists of & skin test, to be followed by X-ray examinations and a physician’s diag- nosis if the skin test shows the sub- ject is tubercular, Dr. Ruhland said. The X-rays will be taken with spe- cial portable machines that have been used recently in Army and Navy hos- pitals and in several such campaigns in the various States. These machines have been approved by the National Institute of Health of the Public Health Service. The whole process of examination will take only three min- utes. It is anticipated -that about two students per minute will be put through the tests with the set-up. Dr. Ruhland stressed the harmlessness. of the examination and said that such an exhaustive test would remove any doubt from the minds of parents as to the health conditions of their chil- dren. “This is only the beginning of the work with which we hope to cope with the dread disease here,” Dr. Ruhland said. “Manifestly, we must find the beginning of all the trouble which has given Washington such a high mor- tality rate. FPirst, of course, we must have funds if we are to carry on the work. If the Congress will co-operate with us and give us the working capital, | we are confident that we can cut the tuberculosis mortality rate here at least 75 per cent.” Dr. Ruhland said that it was his aim to take such tests of children both in the schools and of those of pre-school | age. If the disease could be checked in childhood, the dread disease could be cut more than 50 per cent within | a few years, he said, and could prac- | tically be stamped out despite climatic conditions. Facilities Never Adequate. Dr. Ruhland called attention to the fact that the District never has had adequate tubercular facilities, saying that until the construction of the Dale, Md., Washington had only one- half a bed for each death from the disease, where there should be at least two beds for each death. Before a student is given the test in the present campaign, Dr. Ruhiand sald, the consent of the parents will be obtained, hence the speaking cam- paign before the various organiza- tions. Dr. Ruhland pointed out that the District has the third highest tuber- culosis mortality rate of any city its size in the country and that it is the greatest cause of death among chil- dren between the ages of 5 and 20 years of age, except accidents, and that its cost to the people of the United States is more than a billion dollars each year. He said Washington is the only city of its size in the country that does not have adequate facilities for the treat- ment as well as the prevention of the disease. He laid this fault at the door- step of the Congress, but explained | that he was confident that if members of Congress understood conditions here they would look more favorably upon | supplying funds with which to combat the disease. Unusual Service Afforded. ‘Through tests in the schogls and also in the homes, provided eral funds can be obtained with which to carry on the campaign, a service will be afforded to children which would be impossible under ordinary condi- tions, Dr. Ruhland said. Dr. Ruhland explained that tu- older, unless preventive measures are vanced stages in students where tu- berculosis exists. . Only fully qualified physicians will be employed in the project, Dr. Ruh- a staff of experts, but the pic- | provide & compromise acceptable witur!s will be studied and diagnosed | OF $3 per capita. At least 300 nurses by a staff of trained physicians. Re- ports on the findings of the phy- siclans will be made to the parents of the child, he said. “The national disgrace of tuber- culosis conditions here” was described by Dr. Ruhland last night before the Takoma Park Citizens’ Assoclation. More Nurses Needed. ‘The need of a larger nursing staff was stressed. Additional nurses need not be specialists, but should be able to provide general public health serv- Amelia Just Copyright, A. Amelis Earhart pietured yesterday hhafdx«lufl»wy. -nh-:LVl&Afilll.-n'-uu.luluamouum.~ bed eight times. f ? TO RANDOLPH FIELD. BRIG. GEN. J. E. CHANEY, Assistant chief of the Army Air Corps, has been ordered to com- mand of the Air Corps Training Center, Randolpa Field, Tex., ef- fective May 1. He has been on duty here since 1931, following his graduation in that year from the Army War College. He is a native of Chaney, Md., is 50 years old, and has scen service in Mexico, France and Germany. —Army Air Corps Photo. BANON RADIO TALK IS CHARGED BY FISH | Station Head Points Out He | Missed Deadline by 22 Hours. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 20.—Repre- | sentative Hamilton Fish, jr, of New | York charged last nighi ne was barred from delivering a scheduled FOR EASTER RITES President and Mrs. Roose- velt Will Attend Services at St. Thomas’ Church. (Continued From Pirst Page.) seek relaxation in afternoon motor rides. Secretary Hull said his plans are uncertain. “It all depends on what is going on in the department,” he said. Secretary Ickes declared he would be at his desk in the Interior Depart- ment part of the day as usual. In the afternoon he and Mrs. Ickes will leave for New York, where he will ad- dress the annual meeting of the Asso- ciated Press Monday. Secretary Perkins and Postmaster General Farley said they hoped to get away from the Capital and pass the day with their families in New York City. The double Japanese cherry blos- soms in East Potomac Park will not be in full bloom for Easter visitors because of the cold weather during the early part of the week. There will be a decided “show of color,” how- ever, it was anticipated, as the buds have been swelling rapidly during the past two The White House grounds will be thrown open Monday for the annual egg-rolling celebration. Temporary comfort stations and driking foun- tains are being installed. The grounds will be open to children and adults accompanying them from 9§ am. to 3.30 pm. Monday. The general public is invited to a concert by the Marine Band from 3:30 to 5 pm. The Girl Scouts will have a detail on hand in the grounds to care for lost children and to treat minor injuries. Em gency Hospital will have a physician and two nurses in attendance and the motor corps of the American Red Cross will supply two nurses and an ambulance. The White House grounds will close promptly at b o’clock. Services at Arlington. ‘The resplendent uniforms and wav- ing plumes of the Knight Templars, marshaled in military formation, will add color to the Arlington sunrise services. Led by the Marine Band. the speech over Radio Station WHN be- | cause he proposed to denounce what | he termed an attempt to "aerry-{ | mander” Upstate Republican districts. | | " Fish. a Republican. said that he | Children’s Tubular Hospital at Glenn had been invited by the station sev- | | eral weeks ago to speak on the gen- eral subject of the New Deal and that |when he submitted an advance copy | of his speech was told it had been | | delivered too late. | "Replying to Fish's assertion that | | this was a “fictitious excuse” to keep | | him off the air, Louis K. Sidney, | managing director of WHN, said the | tion's standing rule requires that | | all speeches must be submitted 72 hours in advance. | | “In this case we were willing to | consider it up to 24 hours of the | broadcasting time,” Sidney said. “but it did not reach us until about two | | hours before the time scheduled for the broadcast. It was too late to be even read.” | Fish sald his speech had been de- | livered by messenger at 3:30 pm., | two hours and 45 minutes before he | was due to go on the air. | In the prepared copy of his ad- | | dress, Pish denounced the State re- | apportionment bill, which may be considered by a special session of the | Legislature, as “the grossest, rawest and cheapest political kind of trick- | lery.” JOAN BENNETT IN EAST | | NEW YORK, April 20 (#.—Joan Bennett, motion picture star, arrived | in the East by plane yesterday after | | being grounded 12 hours in New | | Mexico by duststorms, which she | termed “a thrilling but horrible ex- [periencev" said she would return to Hollywood | | fce, he said. Better facilities for a | public health service and appropri- | | ations for proper equipment are badly | | needed. The District is now spending | | amount should not be less than $2 | should be employed, in proportion to the population of the District, where- | a3 the staff at the present time con- | sists of but 32. In addition, about 69 nurses have volunteered their services. Dr. Clifford” E. Waller, assistant surgeon general of the Public Health | Service, addressed the meeting. sub- | stituting for Miss Josephine Roche, [Assnunt Secretary of the Treasury, | who was unable to be present. He | gave a general outline of the activities iof his service and its constant ex- pansion over a large territory. Before Hop P. Wirephoto. knights will march into the amphi- theater, where the service will start at 7:30 am. There will be prayers by Rev. Dr. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House. who is grand prelate of the District Commandery of the order: Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer, grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge, P. A. A. M, of the District, and Rev. Ds Sydney K. Evans. chief of chap lains, United States Navy. The worshiping throng will be led in musical adoration by the choral unit of the Order of Eastern Star. Hymns will be sung to the music of the Marine Band, Capt. Taylor Bran- son, conducting. Rev. Dr. Joseph M. M. Gray. chan- cellor of American University, will deliver the sermon. A striking feature of the service will be & unit of uniformed Job's Daugh- ters, which will form a cross in the parquet of the ampitheater. Cross of Nurses Missing. ‘The living cross of Army nurses which has been presented at the Walter Reed Hospital sunrise service in years past will be missing this year. Capt. Frank L. Miller, post chap- lain, will preach to the assemblage in the formal garden of the medical center. The always impressive Easter music will be furnished by the Army Band and the Ars Musica Choir of . New York. Special bus service to Walter Reed Hospital will be operated tomorrow morning in connection with the sun- rise service, it was announced today by the Washington Rapid Transit Co. Spe- clal busses will leave Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue at 10-minute in- tervals from 6:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. by way of Pennsylvania avenue, Twelfth street, K street, Sixteenth street and Alaska avenue into the hospital grounds. A‘ the conclusion of the services special busses will be avafl- able in the hospital grounds for the return trip downtown. Special busses also will be operated in connection with the sunrise service at Arlington National Cemetery, leav- ing Sixteenth and Buchanan streets at 6:15 and 6:30 am. and leaving Fourth street and Kansas avenue at 6 and 6:15 a.m. Connection with the Capital Transit Co. street cars to Ross- Iyn will be made at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Special music will feature many of the services in Washington churches tomorrow, beginning with sunrise services and continuing through morn- ing masses and celebration of the Holy Eucharist, the 11 o'clock sermon services, afternoon evensong services and at evening services. z At Washington Cathedral. Bishop James E. Freeman will deliver the sermons at both the festival service of holy communion at 11 am. and at evensong services at 4 o'clock. Holy communion will be celebrated in the great choir at 7:30 am. and at 9:30 am. There will be special music by the Cathedral Choir of men and boys at all these services. Services by Moonlight. One of the most impresasive of the local Easter services took place under the light of a full moon last night at Franciscan Monastery, Brookland, when the Pranciscan Friars buried the crucified Christ in image. Easter Monday the Catholic Stu- dents’ Mission Crusade exhibition will be opened with pontifical high mass in the Shrine of the Immaculate Gon- ception, Catholic University, at 9:30 am. Most Rev. John N. McNamara, D. D, celebrant. Assistants will be Very Rev. Charles P. Berry, deacon, and Very Rev. Charles Goodall, sub- 4t Los Angeles a few minutes before \ deacon. The sermon will be preached by Very Rev. Louls Vaeth, head of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The music will be rendered by the cholr of the religious in various houses affiliated with the Catholic University. Exhibits from various countries will be on display, among them Eskimo igloos, Chinese huts, native Indian embroldery, weapons, tools, works. of art, tapestries, curios of all kinds—a veritable trip around the world. . JAPANESE GIRL KILLED Body Found, Stabbed Eight Times, in Blazing Room. LOS ANGELES, April 20 ().— Armed with few clues, police searched today for the murderer of a pretty 2D- year-old Japanese girl, Yoshi Nishida. who was stabbed to death and her body left in a pile of blazing news- papers in her home. The girl's mother, Mrs. SHiglzo Nishida, returned home last night to find smoke pouring from an inner bed- room. Firemen a short time later found the girl's body, partly burned. Detectives said they belleved ‘the girl had been attacked. apparently after a terrific struggle that left the room in shambles. She had been stab- 4